Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests

About this book

In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands. The management of these burned forests has been given much less attention than fire prevention or fire suppression issues, but the post-fire management of burned areas raises strong concerns (economic and social impacts, soil erosion and water quality, biodiversity loss, forest restoration). Although there are a few publications which address post-fire management, the focus of these has been either on general approaches to restoration or specific topics such as preventing post-fire soil erosion. Post-fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests is about the post-fire management of fire-prone forest types in southern Europe. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the topic, ranging from stand-level to landscape-level management, and from emergency actions to long-term restoration approaches.

Contents

1 Setting the scene for post-fire management
2 Land cover change and fire regime in Europe
3 Recent advances in evaluating the effects of fire on flora, fauna and soil
4 Economic assessment of fire damage in Europe
5 Fire hazard and combustibility of European forest types
6 Fire ecology and post-fire restoration approaches in Southern European Forest types
7 Post-fire management of serotinous pine forests
8 Post-fire management of non-serotinous pine forests
9 Post-fire management of Mediterranean broadleaved forests
10 Post-fire management of cork oak forests
11 Post-fire management of exotic woody species
12 Post-fire management of newly fire affected threatened forest types: biodiversity hotspots
13 Post-fire management of Mediterranean shrublands

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